senior and they also approved a two-thirds requirement to pass any future tax increases. >> unlike california which got rid of the two-thirds retirement. >> that's it for this week's journal editorial report. thank you to my panel and for all of you for watching. hope you see you here next wee. . >> jon: on fox news watch. >> i'm not recommending for every future prison that they take a shellacking like i did last night. the mid term aftermath takes a toll on the president and takes a toll on the main street press. will the liberal media accept the outcome. >> it's pretty cheer that the american people want us to do something. >> the new congress prepares to take control and lead the way, tea party backed winners look ahead to their new roles. is the political press preparing a special welcome. >> time dulls memory, but didn't dull any memory.

>> president bush has a new book about life and times in the white house, candid takes on key issues and key events. are the media keying in on the wrong things? who do you trust when it comes to political pundits. news week names the top 50, did they get it right. >> ooh. >> and then there's this. >> the rally to restore sanity, did it work? >> on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton, fellow new american foundation and fox news radio host alan colmes. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> over the last two years we've made progress. but clearly, too many americans haven't felt that progress yet and they told us that yesterday. and as president, i take responsibility for that. what yesterday also told us, that no one party will be able to dictate where we go from

here. and we must find common ground in order to set, in order to make progress on some uncommonly difficult challenges. >> president obama there on wednesday, the day after the election, clearly disappointed with his party and the outcome, but also, offering for parties to find common ground. john boehner, the house speaker designate also looked at what lies ahead for his country. >> the american people spoke and i think it's pretty clear that this is the obama-pelosi agenda is being rejected by the american people. they want, as i said last night. they want the president to change course and i think it's changed course we will. >> it was a night when voters voted with their clickers. take a look at the ratings for election night. unin of the networks was able to match fox news brought in 7 million viewers and beat our cable competitors cnn and msnbc combined.

a long road for fox. let's go back to the year 2000 we've been on the air for four years and cbs averaged 8 million views back then. nbc 10 million and abc 9 million and fox only muster, 435,000. fast forward ten years network news viewership dropped 25% in prime time while fox soared with a 368% increase. alan, i'm sure you're going to tell us that's because we have fair and balanced coverage on fox. >> and because i'm no longer doing hannity and colmes. why they're doing so well on prime time. there's got to be a reason when fox outdoes two primary cable competitors combined and even outdoes the broadcast networks, that's pretty amazing. >> look, we put very juicy stuff on the screen. we do it well graphically, we have interesting hosts. you know, one thing, megyn kelly did a great job, along with bret bare, and one thing

i'll say one of the most-- i'm a liberal obviously. >> jon: no. >> one of the liberal blogs after said the word alas. and after some result came in. see we know it's not fair and balanced. well, we did a great job. >> and msnbc was wearing its politics on its sleeves and more politics on more sleeves than i'd ever seen that muttering track under the interview with michelle bachman, unbelievable-- >> i thought that was michelle bachman. >> nobody bothered to cover her retort to chris mathews. >> jon: let's play that clip. chris mathews interviews michelle bachman. are you hypnotized tonight? because no matter what i ask you, you give the same answer, are you hypnotized, has

someone put you in a trance tonight. you answer the same answer no matter what question. >> i think the american people are finally speaking tonight and we're coming out of our trance and coming out of our nightmare. >> okay, well. >> i think that people are thrilled tonight. i imagine that thrill is probably not so tickly on your leg. >> chris mathews had a tingle up his leg when president obama won the presley. and talking with congress woman michelle bachman of minnesota, a favor of the tea party. >> the fact that so many mainstream newspapers did not publish her retort told us a lot. >> chris mathews is a right on the caller, kept giving an answer by rote to every question he asked. he was not answering the question. >> alan, wh en she wakes up from the trance at least-- >> what about the laughter underneath the questions in the studio. >> as judy said it's pretty

clear msnbc is showing its ideology. and no they'll never get in trouble from the hierarchy by slamming the-- >> when i saw her retort to mat reminded me what george bush said to dan rather when he walked off the set and threw it off his face, boom, it was a great television moment for those who saw it. >> usa today started the coverage the day after the election with this headline "now what", cal i know you wrote a column about this. does this apply to the voters or apply to the media? i'm not sure what they could make of it. >> the numbers on the screen, it's very clear to msmrit. mainstream media is no longer mainstream. fox is the dominant force in news today. and most of the voters figured

that out and jim mentioned the rather thing. probably the beginning point of people realizing they could take back to the media establishment. now they know longer have to talk back, they're irrelevant, nobody watches them anymore. fox now is the media. >> that's a good point. >> you're now on the mainstream media. >> can i have more money. >> and it's an illustration of the phenomenon and why people are i a way from the broadcasters. juan williams expresses an opinion, they fire him and he was on here. he was on tuesday night. who are you going to watch. no conservative, but he has interesting opinions. >> jon: talking about opinions, take a look at the clip of diane sawyer interviewing nancy pelosi soon to be the former speaker of the house. >> the president used the word shellacking in the press conference, what's the first word that comes to your minds. >> i guess that probably is a good word, but i would say a very disappointing result not being as colorful as he is in

that description, but it was, it was a tough loss. >> jon: is seems like kind of a kid gloves interview if you watched the whole thing, judy. >> shellacking is the new something. >> jon: george bush's word. >> absolutely. and diane sawyer was too busy blogging and net twittering to ask nancy the stuff questions whether or not she's going to run. >> jon: what should she be asked. >> are you partially responsible for this defeat, ms. pelosi, how about that. >> at the press conference on wednesday the reporters who treated her-- obama worse than they treated pelosi, did ask obama the same question 20 times. do you feel you're responsible, do you feel you made mistakes, all waiting, all of them even those who voted for them most of them were watching for the gotcha moment, many' the one who finally got obama to confess. >> he did, i take personal responsibility, 11 or 12

times. >> and kudos to the formerly dead or currently dead mainstream media. >> now, you're it. >> are you suggesting that the media were tougher on the president in kind of a reverse sexism thing? >> i think it might be part of it. i think also, failure has its consequences and i think the mainstream media kind of regarded him as a failure and they don't like republicans, but-- >> you people, you people talk about the mainstream media it's a monolithic entity. it proves it, all asked the same question. >> and that was the question, were you responsible for what happened? >> and no questions about pakistan or afghanistan and that's the day after the election. >> and he was asked it 20 times. >> you keep going and digging until you get the answer. >> the people are part of the same operation. >> and they're going to keep going until i give us a break. you have to check out our new website and keep an eye on the

media stories in the watch list section and go behind the scenes and listen to the discussions we have after the break. those are good and one is about to break out here. next the tea party backed winners, how will the media cover them? >> the mid term madness is over, or is it? how will the media treat the newly elected congress? and george w releases his presidential memoir. is the press giving him a fair shake? answers next on news watch. [ male announcer ] ntgomery and abigail haggins

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embracing of the republican party. what they are is a second chance. >> our elected officials will be held accountable by their constituents. >> jon: republican and tea party-backed candidates generally did pretty well except for christine o'donnell there tuesday night laying out their agenda for the next two years. the front pages took note on wednesday morning. the ar air republic, power shift. the indianapolis star, red wave, and the winston-salem journal, republicans take charge. where do the media go from here, jim, when it comes to covering this new, more republican oriented body on capitol hill. >> i think they're personally hurt and professionally thrilled. it's a lot more fun to be targeting john boehner and eric cantor and rand paul. >> jon: targeted? >> targeted is a good word or defending, i'll use that, too, defending nancy pelosi, john

dingell and others here. >> you start with the media is anti-conservative. this is the premise you have here, but the fact is the media is pro media and go where it's best for the media left or right and you're always it's the media. and 30 years of polling on the center of affairs and others, 4-1 margin mainstream media vote democratic. and that disclaimer when you buy the mariucci fund, and in the case of the big broadcast networks, the new york times and washington post, it is. i guarantee you the first piece of legislation that the republicans try to pass in the house, the big, the big networks and the newspapers are going to go out and find a homeless woman some place who claims as she's clutching her infant child it's the fault of the republican party that she's miserable. the new template. >> it's hard being a victim all the time. >> it is. >> that's right. >> is that going to be, i

mean, do you think, judy, that in some respects, the media are going to be looking for some kind of failure from this incoming congress? >> of course, that you will-- it's likely that you will have paralysis and we will read an awful lot of stories about who is to blame. do we need a parliamentary system? >> the more of the tea party, the republicans might have taken the senate. >> i was talking yesterday, jim, with an investment manager who said, you know, this paralysis thing everybody is predicting might not be such a bad thing. we can deal with paralysis, what we can't deal with is uncertainty. >> maybe, that's one opinion. john boehner on abc news, what's hurting the economy is uncertainty. what are the tax rates, nobody knows. one year, two years, it's yours versus boehner. >> prediction, cal, is there going to be a drum beat of the tea party or the headlines. they don't have a leader and tried to make the leader sarah palin and hasn't stuck that

well, i don't think. would ut a leader they don't know who to go to. at least on the left you can always go to jesse jackson or al sharpton for a sound bite, but who is it, who leads the tea party on the right? nobody knows. >> and i didn't know the leaders were al sharpton and jesse jackson, i didn't know that. now i know where to go for answers. >> in a pinch what about sarah palin, doesn't she pass for a tea party leader? >> no. >> all right. a little hesitation. >> jon: it's time for another break, first, if you come across a story that you think shows media bias, e-mail us at news watch@foxnews.com. we'll be back with a presidential memoir. >> president bush pens a book about the tough decisions in office. >> i served, i gave it my all. >> now has the media responded? and news week lists the 50 most powerful politicos and news pundits. who made the cut? that's next on news watch. hi, may i help you?

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>> this may seem strange here, i don't care about perceptions at this point in time, i served, i gave it my all and i'm a content man. and the book has been a-- part of the transition process to private life and it's a way for me to put the reader in the environment in which i had to make decisions. >> jon: candid talk from the 43rd president with nbc's matt lauer about his new book, "decision points" one bombshell, president bush considered dropping vice-president dick cheney from 2004 ticket. and cheney offered to drop off the ticket in 2003 in the end mr. bush kept him on.

the book is not out yet, some people reviewed it. jim, your prediction for the kinds of reviews this former president will get? >> well, i did read the review in the new york times and she didn't like it. of course, she didn't like bush. something tells me again, alan, the high will have a similar reaction across the mainstream media and all oddly enough not like it. >> jon: will there be anybody who says i didn't much like this president george w. bush, but writes a great book. >> let me say the reason he didn't drop cheney, cheney was going to shoot him. >> oh! >> i admire the fact of george w. bush on the interviews try to drag him into punditry, he will not do it. he will not unlike his vice-president, knock or comment what's going on politically in the country. >> actually he had praise for obama, obama had done the right thing in surging forces in afghanistan. he had a-- i was surprised. >> i think people can judge the book separate and apart whether they happen to like george w. bush. >> from a media standpoint he

has done a remarkable thing keeping himself out of the spotlight. he has allowed obama to be president unlike jimmy carter or bill clinton out exchange, and dick cheney is nothing, but-- >> well, okay, fine, but he is reestablishing himself with this book in the minds of an awful lot of people. the thing i don't get, why would he go on oprah of all things and sell it to her on-- >> not to her audience. whose idea was the lighting situation. >> looked like the m.c.i. s. >> exactly. like they're going to water board him. >> which he said he approved, he supported. >> and he said would do it again. >> isn't that breaking the law. it is, actually. >> a violation of the-- >> that will be a story line coming out of this. >> it's already a story line. >> and someone is in violation of the geneva convention. >> in "the washington post." >> jon: let's move on to a new list, news week decided to come out with a ranking of pundits and politicos, the power 50, a list with a novel

premise that money equals power in politics and number one rush limbaugh who also graced news week's cover for the election 2010 issue. the rest of the top spots on the list, trio, glenn beck number two, sean hannity, three, bill o'reilly 5. john stuart number five. sarah palin number 6. keith olbermann at 9 and huffington posts air anna huffington at 15. why did they do this? >> because the payroll, putting money in a wheelbarrow. and you shouldn't base people on how much main they make and doesn't make you more influential because your salary is higher. i'm hoping is the case. which is why the list a preposterous. >> u.k. telegraph has done it, and never tell you, define what influential is. they're more than influential, particularly limbaugh and

hannity and beck, they speak for a lot of people who already believe what they believe. >> this is a news weekly magazine that sold for a dollar after all. >> those who believe the media was obsessed with glamour and money and therefore suck up to wall street in the last few years, admiration for people because of how much money they make, kind of proves their case further. >> and the media likes to talk about the media. wait a minute, that's what we're doing. >> jon: we have to take one more break. the rally to restore sanity. did it work? >> if we amplify everything, we hear nothing. >> and the one good thing to come out of jon stewart's rally to restore sanity. rally to restore sanity. that's n [ male announcer ] taste pops with pringles cracker stix. ♪ so delicious... your mouth will be stranly attracted to them. everything pops with pringles cracker stix.

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zbloochbt so last weekend jon stewart and steven colbert held the rally to restore sanity. thousands lined the mall to hear these two men.

>> hello, america! hello multitude on the washington mall. [ cheers and applause ] >> oh, this feels right. where you have been all my life. thank you to do our bidding. >> jon: that is the face of sanity? jon stewart had a point. >> the country 24-hour politico pundit perpetual panic conflictioner did not cause our problem but it's existence makes solving them that much harder. the press can hold a magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues here to for unseen.